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We keep grinding, hoping we'll achieve X and then we'll be content forever, only to find merely emptiness on the other side.
The new shiny badge of honor barely takes days to get normalized and the void kicks in again.
What exactly are we going after? Is there even an end to this?
I imagine pro athletes might feel the same way. You have to enjoy playing the game for its own sake. The joy of a championship only lasts a few days.
Money. And lemme tell you, have lots of it is totally awesome.
Enlightened ascendant being here, I have some perspective for you …
In the beginning, there is the discovery of meanings, then the self while at the same time the self relationships with everyone and everything else …
And then, for those aspiring or just damn lucky, a glimmering ray of light penetrates the monotonous gloom.
A meaning beyond self worthy of devotion.
This may rise or fall, be ever lasting or a series of elevated epiphanies, However without question the ultimate fulfillment of existential being is …
TO GO BEYOND SELF
TO BE MORE THAN THE SELF
To make consequences of your life out to be more than the sum of consumptive waste keeping you alive.
This is the ultimate human endeavor.
Btw, your self excellence comes by decades of determination, not a few years here and there.
When does it end? It's always ending. And yet it is also always beginning anew each fortnight.
In my personal life, I do the things I enjoy. Try not to suppress desires, instead be open to the world and let life happen.